Ecclesiastes 7:25-27

Legacy Standard Bible

²⁵ I ^(A)turned my heart to know, to explore, and to seek wisdom and an explanation, and to know the wickedness of foolishness and the simpleminded folly of madness. ²⁶ And I found more ^(B)bitter than death the woman whose heart is ^(C)snares and nets, whose hands are chains. ^(D)One who is good before God will escape from her, but ^(E)the sinner will be captured by her.

²⁷ “See, I have found this,” says the Preacher, “adding one thing to another to find an explanation,